Page 6 THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1975
Driven to insanity
Hearst tells of torture
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Patricia
Hearst swore Tuesday that she was
driven to insanity by Symbionese
Liberation Army kidnapers who tor
tured her mentally and physically.
Miss Hearst, in a startling written
affidavit, said she did not willingly
join the SLA and had returned to
the San Francisco area to discover
whether her parents still loved her.
She said the radical band locked her
in a chest for several weeks, then
forced her to help rob a bank on
threat of instant execution if she dis
obeyed.
The written testimony did not
seek to explain Patty s apparent
show of radical ardor since her ar
rest — clenched fist salutes, greet
ings to radical comrades, a self-
description as urban-guerilla on a
prison form. Instead, the document
said she still may be insane.
“Her recollection of everything
that transpired from shortly after
the bank incident up to the time that
she was arrested, has been as
though she lived in a fog. . . in a
perpetual state of terror, the af
fidavit said.
Her parents suggested she be
hospitalized for mental treatment
and be examined by a psychiatrist
familiar with prisoner-of-war
brainwashing.
Miss Hearst, 21, captured by the
FBI last Thursday, a year and a half
after her kidnaping, appeared in
court Monday to seek reduction in
her bail.
A federal court judge on Friday
revoked bail, but said he woidd con
sider arguments that she be allowed
to go free on bond.
Miss Hearst currently is being
held in lieu of $5(X),()()() bond.
U.S. District Court Judge Oliver
J. Carter delayed consideration of
that question pending the examina
tion by court-appointed psychiat
rists and ordered a progress report
by next Tuesday.
The slender red-haired heiress
Firearm
charges
dropped
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES — Federal
firearms charges against Patricia
Hearst and William and Emily Har
ris wO J e dismissed here' Tuesday in
“the interest of justice, U.S. Atty.
William D. Keller said.
Keller said he moved to dismiss
the charges because they arose from
the same incident, a shootout at a
suburban Inglewood sporting goods
store, as more serious Los Angeles
Count) charges.
Keller said the dismissal of fed
eral charges, accusing the trio of vio
lation of the federal Firearms Act
tise of an automatic weapon, “elimi
nates an unneccessary parallel pro
secution.
The Harrises face IS felony
counts brought by the district attor
ney for the shootout, while Miss
Hearst has 19 charges against her.
They include assault with intent to
commit murder, assault with a
deadly weapon, kidnaping, robbery
and auto theft.
Miss Hearst was accused oflaying
down a barrage of bullets from an
automatic rifle to cover the escape of
the Harrises after William was
caught allegedly shoplifting in the
Inglewood store.
The incident occurred the day be
fore the Los Angeles shootout that
left six other Symbionese Libera
tion Arm) members dead.
Meanwhile, Acting Dist. Atty.
John Howard said Tuesday that he
expected the Harrises to appeal’ for
arraignment here “during the mid
dle of next week. ’ He said there was
no indication when Miss Hearst
would be arraigned here.
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sat mute beside her attorneys, her
face frozen in the same stony ex
pression she has maintained in court
since her arrest. Asked by Judge
Carter whether she wished to com
ment, she shook her head no, but
did not speak.
Miss Hearst s affidavit detailed
only the three-month period after
her Feb. 4, 1974 kidnaping. The
narrative ended after the April 1974
robbery of the Hibernia Bank in San
Francisco during which she was
photographed wielding an automa
tic rifle.
After that, the statement said, her
mind is blank.
It was in succeeding months that
the SLA sent tapes from Miss
Hearst announcing she had joined
the SLA, calling her family pigs
and declaring she was now “Tania,”
a revolutionary.
“She has attempted to recon
struct the events which intervened
between the bank episode and her
present situation,” the affidavit
said, “but the very prospect of going
back over so painful and terrible a
path has prevented her from even
attempting to do so.
The statement said she was forced
to make early tape recordings while
locked in a closet blindfolded, un
able to eat or dispose of her bodily
wastes.
It said SLA member “Cinque,”
since identified as convict Donald
DeFreeze, forced her to make the
first tapes with constant threats of
death. He was the only person who
spoke to her, she said.
She said Cinque and the others
tormented her with reports that her
family had abandoned her, that the
Hearsts would not comply with ran
som demands and “it was all right
with them if she were put to death.
They also told her, she said, that
she woidd be shot on sight by law
men if she were captured.
Shortly before her arrest. Miss
Hearst contended, she experienced
“lucid intervals’ in which she sus
pected her parents still cared for
her. She came back to San Francisco
to find out their feelings, the state
ment contended
"... She began to doubt that her
parents were involved in any plan
for her destruction and wished, by
some contrivance, to learn what
their feelings toward her were, and
whether they would accept her back
and give her some of the help which
she so desperately needed, the af
fidavit said.
“For this purpose, she decided to
return to San Francisco, to try to
find some method of establishing
communication with her parents, to
discover whether or not she was to
really be murdered on sight by of
ficers of the law, or if these beliefs
were delusions and hallucinations.
She said that when FBI agents
came to her door Thursday she was
still in a “distorted condition and,
‘she thought that she would be in
stantly killed.
Reportedly, there had been a
split among the fugitives, with Miss
Hearst gaining support from Wendy
Yoshimura, 32, another fugitive
being held on weapons charges un
related to the SLA.
Judge refuses reduction
of Patty’s lover’s bail
Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — A U.S.
magistrate refused Tuesday to re
duce bail for Steven Soliah during a
hearing at which Soliah was de
scribed as Patricia Hearst s lover.
“I lived with him. I finally saw
him in jail. They let me kiss him.
Miss Hearst was quoted as having
told a friend, Patricia Tobin, last
Saturday when she visited her at
San Mateo County Jail.
Asst. U.S. Atty. David Bancroft
told Magistrate Owen Woodruff Jr.
that authorities had obtained a con
versation between Miss Hearst and
Miss Tobin, an old friend, in which
Miss Hearst asked about Soliah.
No explanation was given during
the hearing as to how the two had
met in jail. It was the first public
indication that Miss Hearst had met
with either of the males arrested in
thecase, Soliah and William Harris.
It also was the first indication that
the 21-year-old newspaper heiress
apparently had a second lover dur
ing her months in hiding. In a tape
recording shortly after the May
1974 shootout in Los Angeles in
which six Symbionese Liberation
Army members died, Miss Hearst
revealed that she had been in love
with one of them, William Wolfe.
Bancroft appeared to be reading
from a transcript as he described
Miss Hearst s conversation with
Miss Tobin. He did not say during
the hearing how he had obtained
the conversation and he refused to
tell news reporters afterwards.
Soliah s attorney, Steffan Imhoff,
said, “1 assume they got it illegal!)
It is a violation of state and federal
law to transcribe a conversatioi
without one or both persons aj.
reement.
Bancroft said that when Miss
Tobin asked Miss Hearst whetlw I
Soliah bad rented the outer Mission I
district house where she waseap-1
tured last Thursday, Miss Heam I
said no, Bancroft said. But then sit I
added that she had lived withlii® I
and had been allowed to see him in I
jail.
Soliah, a 27-\ ear-old house-
painter being held on $75,000hail,
is accused of harboring a fugitive lot
alleged!) renting the house where
Miss Hearst was captured.
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